Unfortunately, my hotel room here doesn’t have high-speed internet access, so I’m typing this entry in Word and will upload it when I can access the internet from my laptop. Something tells me that I won’t be seeing an internet connection until I get to Sacramento because, if this $89/night “business†hotel room at a pretty decent hotel in Des Moines doesn’t have one, then I KNOW that the places I have reservations for in Cheyenne, WY and Elko, NV won’t have one.
Anyways, it seemed to be a long drive to get here from Toledo, but I’ve got to start getting used to it because today was only a little over 8 hours…according to Mapquest, I’m looking at 9 hours and 21 minutes tomorrow and 10 hours on Sunday. After leaving Toledo, I got through the rest of Ohio, completely passed through Indiana and Illinois, and went through about 3-4 hours worth of Iowa before arriving here. I’ve decided that the staples of music in the Midwest must be country and classic rock music because I can find those stations everywhere. Too bad that’s not the same for urban and even pop music stations. Thank goodness for the Chicago and Des Moines areas because they had some great things to listen to…aside from those, it was all about listening to my CDs.
I’m exhausted, but, before I go, I’ve got to give my interesting story of the day. So, I arrived at the hotel about an hour ago and, after all this driving through Iowa, I hadn’t seen one other Black person at any of the places I stopped to rest or get gas. A few minutes ago, I was returning with some dinner from Wendy’s and I saw two Black guys in front of my hotel. I couldn’t help but be happy to see a little diversity around there so it put a smile on my face…that is, until I got out of my car and one of the guys made a B-line for me and tried like hell to get me to buy a bootleg Rolex watch from him. I was on my cell phone with a friend of mine, so I could only wave the guy off, but I was just left shaking my head and wondering why one of the two Black folks I’d seen in the entire state of Iowa had to be about the bootleg game. It was pretty funny overall, in a sad sort of way…
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